Strategic planning for national security: Lessons from business experience. Interim report

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6812013

Bracken, P

United States defense planning is at a crossroads and it is therefore useful to review not only discrete issues, but even basic concepts of strategic planning. This Note reviews concepts used in the business world to build insights about how to view current and prospective problems, opportunities, and choices. The author draws upon the business literature for both ideas and metaphors. He observes that U.S. national security planning could profit greatly from an approach that distinguishes among core, environmental, and hedging strategies, and that considers security analogs to such business concepts as defining the business, dealing with new competitors, controlling the intensity of competition, entry and exit barriers, and the need to redeploy assets and restructure the organization. He then relates these concepts to specific problems of national security interest.

• Research Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6812013
• Report Number(s): AD-A-220741/3/XAB; RAND/N-3005-DAG/USDP
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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